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Yesterday a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal, devastating the city of Katmandu. International relief efforts are underway, but one way individuals across the web are contributing is through HOTOSM - the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Time can slip away very quickly during a beautiful Portland summer. Your organizers have been busy, though! Nate G. has been traveling around and speaking at conferences, Erica and Nate W. spoke on a panel for the Grantmakers of Oregon, and Erica also gave a talk at PDXTech4Good. What else is going on? Read our most recent organizer’s meeting notes below to find out.

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who joined us this weekend! As Erica has already said to the project leaders, "I can hardly believe how much we got done, how absolutely stellar the quality of work was, and how much sharing and collaboration and community building we all did!"

This Tuesday marks our second Hack Night as a Code for America brigade, and we're hitting the ground running! The second National Day of Civic Hacking is happening at the end of the month, and Portland has no less than two events in the works to celebrate the occasion. It's time to start planning projects!

The National Day of Civic Hacking is a nationwide event to build innovative civic projects planned in coordination with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and will be supported by a number of federal, state and local agencies.

Jason Denizac from Code for America is in town and has offered to stop by and tell us about some of his experiences as a Code for America fellow working with the city of Chattanooga in Tennessee. The slides from his talk are available.

What a great meeting - we couldn’t have asked for a better match! They have some data sets around Eco Districts and high-impact project needs that we can start working on right now. They are data nerds at heart that really gets open data and wants to be part of this awesome movement.

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